Dr Sia Parsanjad, Utecj Engineers

The Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat at Tallebudgera in southern Queensland will eventually include more than 40 treatment rooms, numerous preparation areas and relaxation zones.

This large mountain retreat was designed to progressively reveal its ‘secrets’ and special features, rather than give everything away at once.

For the fashion house Hermes’ 334th store worldwide, but the first on the Left Bank of Paris it chose timber and an elegant 1930s apartment building on Rue de Sevre.